Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring
Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 29 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 29 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 74%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
51.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring as the trigger. Open records such as Chili's, honey chipotle barbecue chicken flatbread; Fried Chicken Salad; Jimmy dean, stuffed hash browns bacon & veggies and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 85.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 74% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
51.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 27 of 29 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
High-volume listing for Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring - usage rank #7,222
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 29 products listing it (mean slot 36.6). Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring
Products Containing Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring
High-volume slice (16 of 29) for products naming Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 85.2/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring evidence
Start from Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring's 29 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I read safety signals when Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
51.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring? ▼
Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Nitrite. May Contain Smoke Flavoring). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.